Wrapping device for cigar-rolling machines.



No. 639,777. Patented Dec. '26, I899.

c. B. SCHULTZ, WRAPPING DEVICE FOR CIGAR ROLLING MACHINES.

(Application filed Dec. 14, 1896.)

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No. 639,777. Patented Dec. 26, I899.

C B. SCHULTZ. WRAPPING DEVICE FOR CIGAR ROLLING MACHINES.

(Application filed Dec. 14, 1896,)

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No. 639,777. Patented Dec. 26, I899.

C. B. SCHULTZ.

WRAPPING DEVICE FOR CIGAR ROLLING MACHINES.

(Application filed Dec. 14, 1896.)

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embodying my invention.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLARENCE B. SCHULTZ, OF OHARLOTT'ENBURG, GERMANY.

WRAPPING DEVICE FOR CIGAR-ROLLING MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 639,777, dated December26, 1899.

Application filed December 14,1896. Serial No- 615,588. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CLARENCE B. SCHULTZ, engineer, a citizen of theUnited States, residing at Charlottenburg, in the Kingdom'of Prussia,German Empire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inWrapping Devices for Cigar-Rolling Machines, (for which I have obtainedLetters Patent in Belgium, No. 124,508, dated November 10, 1896; inFrance, No. 261,131, dated November 10, 1896; in Germany, No. 96,845,dated November 11, 1896 in 'Luxemburg, No. 2,653, dated November 11,1896; in England, No. 27,179, dated November 30, 1896; in Switzerland,No. 13,515, dated November 30, 1896; in Norway, No. 5,997, datedDecember 3,1896, and in Sweden, No. 8,604, dated December 10, 1896 and Ido hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

y invention relates to improvements in the construction of shaping orwrapping de vices for cigar-rolling machines in which the bunch isrolled into the wrapper; and it consists of means whereby the noiseheretofore occasioned in such devices is reduced or overcome and thecigar is prevented from being improperly compressed should an excess offiller be put into a bunch.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a wrapping device embodying myinvention. Fig. 2 represents a side elevation of a cigarmachine providedwith the wrapping device Fig. 3 represents a side elevation of certaindetached portions of the machine. Fig. 4 represents an end elevation ofcertain of the parts shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 5 represents a section, online a: m, Fig. 2, on an enlarged scale, of jaws employed for rotating acigar while the same is being wrapped.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfig'ures.

Referring to the drawings, a and a. designate jaws whose inner faces arerecessed or shaped relatively to a cigar z to be received Within thesame, the jaws a being hinged or pivoted in the ears I), which areformed with or secured to the heads (1, while the jaws a are fixed tosaid heads, it being noticed that when the jaws a are closed they abutagainst said heads, whereby the minimum diameter of the cigar to be madeis established. In order to retain the jaws in such closed position, Iemploy the springs c, which are mounted on the rods 6' and have theirends bearing against said head and jaws cl a, it being noticed that theheads (1 receive said rods 6 and are adapted to swing thereon.

It will be seen that should the filling or stock introduced between thejaws be in excess of the amountrequired for a predetermined size of acigar or the jaws are overloaded the jaws a will yield or separate fromthe other jaws, so that while the cigar will be duly pressed it will notbe injured or packed to interfere with its free drawing while beingsmoked.

Depending from the heads 01 are the clastic or spring tongues f 9,between which the moving rods it slide under a slight pressure.

J ournaled in the frame is of the machine is a main driving-shaft Z,which may be driven in any suitable manner and has keyed or otherwisesecured thereto the spur-wheels m, which mesh with the pinions n, so asto 'impart motion thereto, it being noted that said pinions receive theends of the rods h, so as to cause the latter to travel in a circulardirection, as indicated by the arrows Z in Fig. 4, and that said rods htravel around the journals p of the pinions n as an axis. The heads clare journaled on the rods e, and the latter are secured to swinging armsq, journaled in the frame it of the machine. The rods it pass throughslots r in the arms q, as best seen in Fig. 4, so that when the pinionsn rotate they impart a swinging motion to the arms g, which motion istransmitted by said arms to the jaws a and a. The rods h, besidesimparting a swinging motion to the arms q, also cause the jaws a and ato open and close at intervals, so as to take hold of and also release acigar 2 at the proper time during theprocess of wrapping the same. Whena rod it occupies a position in the upper portions of the spaces betweenthe springtongues f and g, as seen in the lower righthand portion ofFig. 5, said rod will cause the jaws a and 0. to close and hold a cigar2 between them, a position in the lower portions of the spaces betweenthe spring-tongues f and g, as seen in the lower left-hand portion ofFig. 5, said rod will cause the jaws a and a to open and to release itshold on a cigar 2.

In a contemporaneously pending application filed by me December 14,1896, and bearing Serial No. 615,590 I have shown and claimed certaindevices which I have herein described, but to which I make no claim.

Y Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. In a cigar-rolling machine having apair of jaws, means for swinging and for opening and closing said jaws,one of said jaws being adapted to yield when loaded beyond primaryadjustment.

nesses.

CLARENCE B. SCHULTZ.

Witnesses:

O. H. S. SCHULTZ, M. PALMIE.

